Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-29

CONSCIENTIOUS young lauleS are silently saving
to me while | speak: "Do YOU think card
PLAYING will do us any harmn Perhaps not,
but how will YOU feel if in the great day Of
eternity, when we are asked to give an ac-
count of our influence, some man will say to
you: IL was introduced 10 games of chance
in the year 1887 in Brooklyn, in your house,
and | went on from that sport TO something
more exciting, and went on down until | lost
my business, and lost my morals, and lost my
SOUL and these chains that you see on my
wrists and feet are the chains of a gamester's
doom, and am on my way to gamblers hell"
Honey at the start eternal catastrophe at the
last
WALL STREETS EVIL WORK.
Stock gambling comes into the same cata-
logue 1t must be very eXhiarating to 90 into
Wall street, New York. or state street, Boston,
or Third street, Philadelphia, and depositing
a small sum OF money run the risk Of taking
out fortune Many men are doing an honest
and safe business in the stock market and
YOU are an ignoramus II you do not know that
II Is just as legitimate to deal in stocks as to
deal in coffee or sugar or -four. But nearly
all the outsiders who 20 there on little finan-
up the unsuspecting flies. had friend who
put his hand on his hip pocket and said to me
tn substance: 81 have there the value Of a
hundred and fifty thousand dollars" His
home Is to -day penniless. What was the mat
terl Wall street. OF the vast ajOrity who
great stock firm goes down and whole columns
OF newspapers discuss their fraud or their dis
aster, and We are presented with their feat
ures and their biography. But where one
such famous firm sinks 500 unknown men sink
with them. The great steamer goes down,
and all the little boats are swallowed In the
same engulfment Gambling is gambling,
whether in stocks or breadstuffs, or dice or
race track betting. ExhlaratiOn at the start
and raving brain, and shattered nervous
system, and a sacrificed property. and de-
stroyed soul at last Young man, buy no lot
terry tickets, purchase no prize packages, bet on
no base ball games or yatch racing, have no
faith in luck, answer no mysterious circulars
proposing great income for small investment
shoe away the buzzards that hover around our
hotels trying to entrap strangers.
ADVICE AND WARNING.
Go out and make an honest living. Have
God on your side and be candidate for
heaven. Remember all the paths of sin are
banked with flowers at the start, and there
are plenty OF helpful hands to fetch the gay
charger to your door and hold the stirrup
while you mount But further on the horse
plunges to the bit in a slough inextricable.
The best honey is not like that which JOna-
than took on the end Of the rod and brought
to his lip. but that which God puts on the
banqueting table Of mercy, at which we are
all invited to sit | was reading Of a boy
among the mountains Of Switzerland ascend
guides. The boy stopped on the edge Of the
cliff and said: There is a flower mean to
get" Come away from there" said the
father, "you will fall off. 4" ''No," said he,
Il must get that beautiful flower" and the
guides rushed toward him to pull him back,
when thew heard him say, II almost have it."
as he fell two thousand feet Birds of prey
were seen in few days after circling through
the air and lowering gradually to the place
where the corpse lay. Why seek flowers of
the edge of precipice VIXEN you may walk
knee-deep amid the full blooms Of the verv
paradise OF godi When man may sit at
kings basquet, whv will he go down the steps
and contend for the gristle and bones Of a
hounds kennell "Sweeter than honey and
the honevcOmb," SAYS David, lis the truth Of
God" with honey ont of the rock would
have satisfied thee" SAYS God to the recreant
Here is honey gathered from the blossoms Of
trees OF life. and with rod made out Of the
wood of the cross dip IL up for all your souls.
THE POET sHELLEY's FATE.
The poet HesiOd tells of an ambrosia and q
nectar the drinking OF which would make
men live forever and one sip of this honey
from the Eternal rock viii give you immortal
life with God. Come off of the malarial
levels Of a sinful life. Como and live on the
uplands of grace where the vineyards sun
themselves. o, taste and see that the Lord is
gracious. Be happy now and happy forever.
For those who take q different course the
have admired Percy Shcllcy, the Great English
poet, but l deplore the fact that 1t was a
great sweetness to him to dishonor God. The
poem Queen Nab" has in ii the mlligning of
the Deity. The infiiel poe: was impious enough
to ask for Rowland Hills Surrey chapel that
he might denOunce the Christian religion. He
was in great glee against God and the truth.
But he visited Italy, and one day on the Medi-
terranean with two friends in boat which
was twenty-four feet long he was coming
toward shore when an hours squall struck the
water. A gentleman standing OH shore
through glass saw many boats tossed In this
squall, but all outrode the terror except one,
that in which Shelley, the infidel poet and his
two friends were sailing. That never came
ashore, but the bodies of two OF the occupants
washed upon the the beach. one OF them the
poet. A funeral pyre was built on the sea-
shore by some classic friends, and the two
bodies very consumed. Poor Shelley He
would have no God while he lived. and he
probably had no God when he died The
Lord knoweth the way of the righteous, but
the way Of the ungodlv shall perish"